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New York Times Tech
Apr 19, 2024

Start-Up Founder Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Fraud
Manish Lachwani, who founded the software start-up HeadSpin, is the latest tech entrepreneur to face time in prison in recent years.

New York Times Tech
Apr 19, 2024

Tesla Will Recall Cybertruck in Latest Setback
A federal auto safety agency said the accelerator pedal on the pickup truck, sales of which began in late 2023, could become stuck, increasing the risk of accidents.

New York Times Tech
Apr 19, 2024

The Music Episode
"I feel like we've been at the club. I need some water and some electrolytes."

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Apple Says It Was Ordered to Pull WhatsApp From China App Store
Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads in its China app offerings Friday on Beijing's orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter
The company's revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company's dominant streaming service.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Micron Will Receive $6.1 Billion to Build Semiconductor Plants
The grant to the memory chipmaker is the latest federal award aimed at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

How a Crypto Compliance Officer Ended Up in a Nigerian Prison
Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in February for a planned two-day business trip. He hasn't returned.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Countdown Is On for the Bitcoin ‘Halving'
Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta's latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

TikTok's Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass
Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass's firm.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Truth Social Has an Edge as Rival Right-Wing Apps Falter
Donald Trump's social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel's government.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

TikTok Bill to Be Bundled With Aid to Ukraine and Israel, House Speaker Indicates
A new measure attempts to force the Senate's hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app's sale.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

TikTok Bill Is Bundled With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
A House measure unveiled Wednesday attempts to force the Senate's hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app's sale.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Is Leaping Into Retirement
It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Atlas, a Humanoid Robot Used for Research, Is Leaping Into Retirement
It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data
In a first, the legislation extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Tesla Seeks to Revive Musk's $47 Billion Pay Deal With New Shareholder Vote
The company's directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company's registration to Texas, from Delaware.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Tesla Seeks to Revive Musk's $47 Billion Pay Deal After Judge Says No
The company's directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company's registration to Texas, from Delaware.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Rusty Foster Tracks Media Gossip From an Island in Maine
Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city's media class.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Women Talk Through Their Abortions on TikTok
At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Everything You Need to Know About Smartphone Backups
It doesn't take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone's photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

The 2024 Paris Olympics Prepares For Cyberattacks
"We will be attacked," the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats said. To prepare, organizers have been hosting war games and paying "bug bounties" to hackers.

New York Times Tech
Apr 16, 2024

The Paris Olympics' One Sure Thing: Cyberattacks
"We will be attacked," the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats said. To prepare, organizers have been hosting war games and paying "bug bounties" to hackers.

New York Times Tech
Apr 16, 2024

Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Gulf.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Should You Use an Anti-Wrinkle Straw?
Another solution to a problem we didn't know we had.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

A.I. Has a Measurement Problem
Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image? Right now, there's no easy way to answer those questions.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Biden Administration Awards Samsun $6.4 Billion for Chip Production
The federal grants will support Samsung's new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, along with the expansion of an existing site in Austin.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Tesla Will Lay Off More Than 10% of Global Workforce
Along with the departure of a senior executive, the cuts added to signs of turmoil at the electric car company.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Tesla Will Lay Off More Than 10% of Workers
Elon Musk's electric car company reported a drop in sales in the first three months of the year, and its profit margin has been falling for months.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

U.S. Awards Samsung $6.4 Billion to Bolster Semiconductor Production
The federal grants will support Samsung's new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, along with the expansion of an existing site in Austin.

New York Times Tech
Apr 12, 2024

Tell Us: Has Elon Musk's Behavior Affected How You View Tesla?
Mr. Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has turned off many people with polarizing remarks on social media, and it may be affecting the automaker's sales.

New York Times Tech
Apr 12, 2024

Despite the Watch World's Secrecy, Data Services Expand
Swiss brands and retailers now have a few options to determine what's happening with the industry. Just a couple of years ago, they had almost none.

New York Times Tech
Apr 12, 2024

Europe's A.I. ‘Champion' Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region's culture and politics.

New York Times Tech
Apr 11, 2024

Apple Lifts Some Restrictions on iPhone Repairs
This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limits.

New York Times Tech
Apr 11, 2024

Jackson Hinkle Rides Rage Over Israel to Prominence
Jackson Hinkle's incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X since October — a surge that some researchers say is aided by inauthentic accounts.

New York Times Tech
Apr 11, 2024

Humane's AI Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI and Microsoft, can be helpful — until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes.

New York Times Tech
Apr 11, 2024

Computer Theorist Wins $1 Million Turing Award
This year's honor will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who specializes in randomness.

New York Times Tech
Apr 10, 2024

AI Chatbots Are Hiring Tutors to Train Their Models
The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.

New York Times Tech
Apr 10, 2024

Now Hiring: Sophisticated (but Part-Time) Chatbot Tutors
The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.

New York Times Tech
Apr 09, 2024

What Happened When a German Car Factory Went All Electric
Volkswagen's plant in Zwickau stopped producing Golfs and switched to electric vehicles, illuminating the risks and opportunities for factory towns and cities.

New York Times Tech
Apr 09, 2024

Beeper Messaging App Is Acquired as a Bet on a Regulatory Shift
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices.

New York Times Tech
Apr 08, 2024

Tesla Settles Lawsuit Over a Fatal Crash Involving Autopilot
A Tesla driver's family had sought damages for the 2018 crash, which happened while the carmaker's driver-assistance software was in use.

New York Times Tech
Apr 08, 2024

TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to build an additional factory and upgrade another planned facility in Phoenix with the federal grants.

New York Times Tech
Apr 08, 2024

Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.

New York Times Tech
Apr 08, 2024

Google to Tone Down Message Board After Employees Feud Over War in Gaza
The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.

New York Times Tech
Apr 07, 2024

Maryland Passes 2 Major Privacy Bills, Despite Tech Industry Pushback
One bill would require apps like Instagram and TikTok to prioritize young people's safety and the other would restrict the collection of consumer data.

New York Times Tech
Apr 07, 2024

In Battle Over Health Care Costs, Private Equity Plays Both Sides
As medical practices owned by private equity firms fuel overbilling, a payment tool also backed by such investors helps insurers boost their profits.

New York Times Tech
Apr 06, 2024

What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.
As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to "synthetic data" — data made by the A.I. itself.

New York Times Tech
Apr 06, 2024

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here's what to know.

New York Times Tech
Apr 06, 2024

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

New York Times Tech
Apr 05, 2024

Is A.I. Already Taking Jobs? A Filmmaker Tries Sora The XZ Backdoor Caper
"I've always said if you have a ChatGPT subscription and a hose, you can get very far in this life."

New York Times Tech
Apr 05, 2024

Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There's a Fund for That.
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech companies, including Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI and Discord.

New York Times Tech
Apr 05, 2024

Back in the '90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand
A total solar eclipse in Aruba was streamed to millions of users of the World Wide Web in 1998, helping to start an ongoing era of viral videos of space and astronomy.

New York Times Tech
Apr 05, 2024

Andres Freund, el ingeniero que previno un posible ciberataque global
Un ingeniero de Microsoft notó que algo andaba mal en un software en el que había trabajado. Pronto descubrió que probablemente alguien intentaba acceder a computadoras en todo el mundo.

New York Times Tech
Apr 04, 2024

Ford Slows Its Push Into Electric Vehicles
The automaker said it would delay new battery-powered models and shift its focus to hybrid cars, sales of which are rising fast.

New York Times Tech
Apr 04, 2024

TikTok Spends Millions on Ad Blitz as Congress Considers Banning the App
The video app is spending millions on ads as Congress considers a bill that could lead to a U.S. ban.

New York Times Tech
Apr 03, 2024

NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon
The agency's future moon buggies will reach speeds of 9.3 miles per hour and will be capable of self-driving.

New York Times Tech
Apr 03, 2024

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?
A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.

New York Times Tech
Apr 03, 2024

Switching From iPhone to Android Is Easy. It's the Aftermath That Stings.
Even if you manage to ditch your iPhone, Apple's hooks are still there.

New York Times Tech
Apr 03, 2024

‘Carefluencers' Are Helping Older Loved Ones, and Posting About It
On TikTok and Instagram, people are sharing what it's like to take care of relatives who have reached their final years.

New York Times Tech
Apr 02, 2024

George Carlin's Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast
The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin's work.

New York Times Tech
Apr 02, 2024

Sticks. And the People Who Love Them.
Those who appreciate "something as basic as a stick" are sharing their enthusiasm through a newly popular Instagram account.

New York Times Tech
Apr 02, 2024

Love Sticks? There's an Instagram for That.
Those who appreciate "something as basic as a stick" are sharing their enthusiasm through a newly popular Instagram account.

New York Times Tech
Apr 02, 2024

An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes
Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools for fighting A.I.-manipulated content.

New York Times Tech
Apr 02, 2024

Tesla's Sales Drop, a Sign That Its Grip on the E.V. Market Is Slipping
Sales of the company's electric cars dropped in the first three months of the year, even as other automakers sold more battery-powered vehicles.

New York Times Tech
Apr 01, 2024

Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement
The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity in the Chrome browser's private Incognito setting.

New York Times Tech
Apr 01, 2024

How One Tech Skeptic Decided AI Might Benefit the Middle Class
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization.

New York Times Tech
Apr 01, 2024

China's Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms
China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say.

New York Times Tech
Mar 31, 2024

Daniel C. Lynch, Founder of Major Computer Exhibition, Dies at 82
After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking equipment.

New York Times Tech
Mar 31, 2024

Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
The answer involves a remarkable — and lucrative, and ridiculous — scheme to game the way we find music today.

New York Times Tech
Mar 30, 2024

AT&T Passcodes for Millions Are Reset After Leak of Customer Records
Nearly eight million customers and 65.4 million former account holders were affected by the data breach, the company said.

New York Times Tech
Mar 29, 2024

OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.

New York Times Tech
Mar 29, 2024

OpenAI Unveils Audio Tool That Recreates Human Voices
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.

New York Times Tech
Mar 29, 2024

4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.

New York Times Tech
Mar 29, 2024

A.I.'s Messy Moment Listeners Respond to Jonathan Haidt Shrimp Jesus
"Being a C.E.O. sucks. Elon was right. It is like looking into the abyss and chewing glass."

New York Times Tech
Mar 29, 2024

Is Garry Tan San Francisco's ‘Twitter Menace' or True Believer?
The deep pockets of the tech investor Garry Tan are valued by his allies, but his pugnacious online habits are creating plenty of enemies in the city he says he wants to save.

New York Times Tech
Mar 28, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for FTX Fraud
Mr. Bankman-Fried, who was convicted of stealing $8 billion from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, faced a maximum sentence of 110 years.

New York Times Tech
Mar 28, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried's Sentence: How It Compares With Bernie Madoff's and Others
Here's how the former crypto mogul's 25-year sentence stacks up against the prosecutions of Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff and others.

New York Times Tech
Mar 28, 2024

How Sam Bankman-Fried's Sentence Compares With Other White-Collar Cases
Here's how the former crypto mogul's 25-year sentence stacks up against the prosecutions of Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff and others.

New York Times Tech
Mar 28, 2024

Tesla's Pivot to China Saved Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing.
Tesla and China built a symbiotic relationship, with credits, workers and parts that made Mr. Musk ultrarich. Now, his reliance on the country may give Beijing leverage.

New York Times Tech
Mar 28, 2024

Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Use AI to See, Hear and Speak. What Are They Like?
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes ensued.

New York Times Tech
Mar 28, 2024

How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality for the 737 Max
Problems have plagued the manufacturer even after two fatal crashes, and many current and former employees blame its focus on making planes more quickly.

New York Times Tech
Mar 27, 2024

Amazon Adds $2.75 Billion to its Stake in Anthropic
The latest investment brings Amazon's total stake in the San Francisco company to $4 billion.

New York Times Tech
Mar 27, 2024

A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.

New York Times Tech
Mar 27, 2024

Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza
The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.

New York Times Tech
Mar 26, 2024

TikTok Bill Would Complicate ByteDance Investments if Passed
Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance, the parent of TikTok. Their investments are increasingly under fire.

New York Times Tech
Mar 26, 2024

The U.S. Investors Caught in the Scrum Over TikTok
Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance, the parent of TikTok. Their investments are increasingly under fire.

New York Times Tech
Mar 25, 2024

DeSantis Signs Social Media Bill Barring Accounts for Children Under 14
A new Florida law also requires apps like TikTok and Snapchat to obtain a parent's consent before giving accounts to 14- and 15-year-olds.

New York Times Tech
Mar 25, 2024

X's Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Research Group Is Dismissed
Elon Musk's social media company sued a group that exposed hate speech on the site, but a judge ruled that the suit was designed to punish speech.

New York Times Tech
Mar 25, 2024

Inside Amira Yahyaoui's Claims about Mos, a Student Aid Start-Up
Amira Yahyaoui, a human rights activist, promoted the success of her student aid start-up, Mos. Some of her statements do not add up, according to internal data and people familiar with the company.

New York Times Tech
Mar 25, 2024

E.U. Takes Aim at Alphabet, Apple and Meta in Wide-Ranging Investigations
The inquiries signal the bloc's intention to tightly enforce sweeping new competition rules that took effect this month.

New York Times Tech
Mar 23, 2024

The Government's Struggles With Outsourcing Software Development
The bloated cost of the ArriveCAN app and new investigations into possible fraud have highlighted some problems with turning to outside companies.

New York Times Tech
Mar 22, 2024

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers.

New York Times Tech
Mar 22, 2024

Joni Mitchell, Following Neil Young, Returns to Spotify After Protest
Her music has quietly reappeared on the streaming service, two years after a departure over what she called "lies" about Covid-19 vaccines in podcasts.

New York Times Tech
Mar 22, 2024

Justice Dept. Sues Apple, Smartphones and Children with Jonathan Haidt and Reddit's I.P.O.
"We'll see you in court."

New York Times Tech
Mar 22, 2024

The Trustbuster Who Has Apple and Google in His Sights
Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, made his boldest move on Thursday by accusing Apple of antitrust violations.

New York Times Tech
Mar 22, 2024

With TikTok Under Fire, Brands That Rely on It Worry
Many companies, particularly in the beauty and fashion industries, have boosted sales through the platform. They don't really have a backup plan.

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